"You've got an awfully kissable mouth."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational."
"It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people."
"He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare."
- Richard Finney
"Are you exciting to be with... or are you boring like the rest of them?"
"I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the..."
- Bridie Clark
"Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him i..."
"I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal."
"He watched her for several minutes. Something was stirred in him, something not accounted for by the warm smell of the afternoon or the triumphant vividness of red. He felt persistently that the girl ..."
"I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write."